Grant McGregor

My practice has always been concerned with story telling and emotion. Currently I am finding a great deal of interest in the works of the old masters from Strozzi to Rembrandt. What I find most interesting about these types of works is the praise and honour they receive as they are held in high institutions. This is often in direct contrast to the artists who created them and is absolutely incontrast to most artists living today. Is it right that art should find itself with a better standard of living than the artists themselves?
With a combination of techniques and materials I take historical works as my starting point changing colour, composition as well as adding and subtracting elements giving new life to these old works of grandised art. As I reinterprete these works for a modern era they are lowered from there lofty perch and brought into the gritty realm of social satire.